Plus: When The Sun doesn’t shine and the Home Office doesn’t work. P.S: In solidarity with the former Waitrose food magazine editor, I will eat steak.
Plus: May under fire at home and pressure abroad. And around tables at the heart of Westminster, Labour researchers huddle, as though ready for an election and power.
Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Dan Hannan, Liam Halligan, Steve Baker, Tom Tugendhat & others will speak. And there’s a special discount for ConHome readers.
“I’m well are of that,” Blair’s former spin doctor replies, in (fairly) good humour.
In reference to Clark’s comments earlier, the leader of the ERG points to previous discreditations of the “scare-story” approach.
As well as punishing the use of chemical weapons, “we are seeking to hold Assad to account at the UN Security Council…despite the fact that he is protected by Russia”.
The Health and Social Care Secretary tells Peston that better, longer-term planning would help to raise care standards.
The Leader of the House of Commons responds to questioning about whether we should be worried about “no deal”.
“What she was saying was we’re going to have an investment-led economy,” the Labour leader tells Peston, in an interesting redefinition of Rayner’s phrase.
My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.
Plus: The Labour leader’s other Brighton speech: “It was a full-blown Marxist rant. Put up taxes. Employers are evil. You know the sort of thing. They lapped it up.”
Has anyone told Barry Gardiner about this latest change? Only last month, he wrote that staying in the Customs Union would be “a disaster”.
The shadow chancellor makes it clear to Robert Peston.
The Brexit Secretary was talking to Robert Peston.
The former Education Secretary says she knows from experience that “there’s only so much brain space” for reforms.